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" Instead, it's our responsibility to ask for evidence. Evidence for which strategies are effective, not just which strategies are popular. Evidence for why we teach the way we teach, not just because we've always taught that way. Most importantly, after reading this book, we hope that on the first day of the school year, you won't be asking, “What should I teach?” Instead, you'll be asking, “How should I teach? How can I turn my teaching into powerful teaching? "
― Pooja K. Agarwal , Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
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" Even if you're already using Power Tools, how learning works isn't always intuitive. Consider these myths about learning, which you'll read more about throughout the book: Myth: When students learn something easily, they will remember it well. Myth: Forgetting should be prevented as much as possible. Myth: It's better for learning if we give feedback before students make errors. Unleash these four Power Tools your way, with your content, in your classroom. In this book, we focus on how students learn, not what students learn. While we give examples from teachers in a variety of content areas, we don't focus on content-specific knowledge because research demonstrates that Power Tools are effective for all content areas. Because you know your classroom best, we will help you take these flexible research-based strategies and unleash them your way, with your content, in your classroom. "
― Pooja K. Agarwal , Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
